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...Glamorous and decorative, a palimpsest of French history from its days as a grain market then a stock exchange, the vast Bourse as arena for experiential art is a Turbine Hall on steroids....
...Pierre Chasseray, from the campaign group 40 Million Motorists, put it thus: “All motorists feel like Paris City Hall is more focused on attacking them than supporting public transport....
...He ran a prolific workshop until he was 92, when he fell off a scaffold while restoring a painting in Antwerp City Hall. But Coxcie was a synthesiser; Rubens formulated a new visual language....
...The entrance hall to the Musée d’Orsay’s magnificent Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism is smothered in bright red flowers — enlarged versions of the scarlet blots and flecks swarming the long grasses of...
...Holkham Hall by Candlelight, Norfolk Wander through staterooms lit by candlelight and festooned with decorations – mince pies and prosecco are provided to elevate festive spirits....
...Their virtual greenhouse is a post-apocalyptic version of London’s National Gallery, its grand halls, marble pillars, walls of pictures ruined, decaying, overrun by foliage as if, Collishaw says, “this old...
...Rhodes says the concept originated last year when the band were preparing to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame....
...He also had the hall outside his office painted “Ancora” red....
...Houghton Festival, Houghton Hall, NorfolkThe Palladian mansion hosts the fourth edition of its dance music festival....
...Dear Jackie and Bar Jackie, its Italian-inflected restaurant and boîte, will be open to the public, while a second dining lounge is for residents only....
...Few things have delighted me in recent months so much as the contents of Sir Jackie Stewart’s fridge....
...He also says the fashion event at the Royal Albert Hall is part of a different universe from the one he was once a master of....
...Jackie Kay, former Scottish makar, said: “He changed things!”...
...Monet: The Restless Vision by Jackie Wullschläger (Allen Lane)The FT’s chief visual arts critic places the evolution of the founder of Impressionism in the context of his personal life....
...It’s all there in Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away), his enveloping, irresistibly entertaining show launching Lightroom, London’s new venue for artist installations — a Turbine-Hall-sized lightbox...
...Perhaps the most striking premium was achieved by the desk at which Hilary Mantel wrote her Wolf Hall trilogy, which, judging by its catalogue picture, looks like any bog-standard self-assembly number in...
...rather than quality, inevitably disappoint, however worthy the message: the messy Surrealism Beyond Borders, Cecilia Vicuña’s ecology lecture “Brain Forest Quipu” (to April 16) in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall...
...“Playing Pompidou” is a virtual tribute to Cage’s composition 4’33”, consisting of ambient sounds in an otherwise silent concert hall....
...You have a one BHK [bedroom, hall, kitchen], two BHK, and then a three BHK, for example – it all starts with a design of the unit itself,” Bofill says....
...triumphs: the A$1bn (around £555mn) transformation of its historic Central Station, Australia’s busiest transport hub, delivering new Sydney Metro platforms and concourses beneath the station and a new hall...
...“But there currently isn’t anything like Ladbroke Hall. I’m excited to see how it becomes part of the local culture and legacy.”...
...But the paintings with which Soheila Sokhanvari transforms the Barbican’s Curve into a glittery memorial hall follow Persian courtly miniature tradition....
...I now have a built-in banquette and a table that I bring into this hall space and it becomes a warm meeting place....
...Jackie Clune, whose daughter Saoirse secured a place to study drama at MMU, said she spent six days searching before finding a more expensive room in private halls....
...He began depicting music halls, and with their mirrored interiors he transferred Whistlerian magic of light and space to plebeian urban settings....
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